Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44162, Allen Gilbert, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn-
Gilbert, Allen
NUMBER
S 44162
CONTENTS

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Gilbert, Allen
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 95.
Rank: Private.
Regt: Col. Sheldon's
Disability: Wounded in divers places, viz: in the head, hand, and leg, but of no great consequence.
When and where disabled: July 2, 1779, Poundridge
Residence: Otsego county.
Remarks: Enlisted April 1, 1778; continued to the end.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete except as to physicians certificate, which certifies that he has lost the use of one finger; the other wounds of no consequence.

15,462
New York. R
Allen Gilbert,
of Richland in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheldon of the Connecticut line, for the term of five years. War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11. of April. 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of Oct. 1819 and sent to Smith Dunlap, Esq. Oswego Co. N. Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 . . . . $134.40 Semi-anl. all'ce ending March 4. 1820. . . 48. " Arr d 1 year 4 m s 24/30. $182.40
Continued mch. 20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Arrears due as Rev d Pensioner . . . $ 134.40
Amount paid as Invalid Pensioner from 11. Ap r 1818 to 4. Sept. 1819- 1 year 4 m s 24/30 at $2 p m } 33.60
Difference between Invalid & Rev d Pensioner . . . . $100.80

Notif n sent Nov. 20 th 1820 to James A. Davis Richland Oswego. 60 N.Y.R.

Alan Gilbert
Adm?
(See final settlement at cons. 34,472.)

Bennington Co
On this 12 th day of August 1819 Personally appeared before me the subscriber Allen Gilbert and being by me first duly sworn saith that he never had any certificate of a pension from the department of war and that he has been a pensioner for a number of years since the year 1792 the one of his being placed on the pension list by the public creditors and he went to the city of New York & drew his money In person the first time & since drawn by a power and that he doth hereby relinquish all claims to any form pensions for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the pension under the late act of Congress, an act for the number of certain persons engaged In the land and naval service of the United States In the war of the rebellion and that he the said deponent did not know that he was entitled to a certificate to that purpose and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed This 12 th day of August 1819
Allen Gilbert
Before me Smith Dunlap Judge
Testify that the said Allen Gilbert a credible man and may be believed on his oath (S Dunlap)

Allan Gilbert
Pension Papers
154 or
Orwego
Con
Albany

State of New York § Albany County §
On this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas being a court of record in and for said County instituted and established as such by a public statute of the State of New York. Allan Gilbert aged sixty four years, resident in the Town of Albany in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolution as follows in Capt. Ezekiel P. Belding's Troop in the Second regiment of Light Artillery commanded by Col. Elisha Sheldon at the time he was discharged, that his first declaration or application to the War Department of the United States for a Pension under the act passed the eighteenth (18th) day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen was dated the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - in consequence of which application a Pension Certificate was issued in his favor numbered fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty two, and I do hereby swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the Eighteenth day of March one

thousand eight hundred and eighty, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed -
Allen Gilbert
Real estate I have none - Personal property as follows: - Bead and Beading and weaving apparatus
  One Cow $ 15 00   1 one horse Wagon and harness 30 00   1 old beaver 1 50   1 Pot & two small kettles 2 75   2 Chests 2 00   1 Spider 1 00   1 Scuttle 1 00   6 Chairs 3 00   1 shovel & spade 2 50   1 Trammel 1 50   6 plates 68   6 tumblers & forks 75   6 cups & saucers 25   2 Tea Pots 75   1 hoe & one do axe 1 25 
$83 73
Allen Gilbert
and this declarant upon his oath aforesaid further says that he is by occupation a farmer, but partly from wounds which he received in the revolutionary war in employed in the Service of his Country and partly from severe and continued infirmities he is unable to do but very little common labor - and this declarant further says

upon his oath of aforesaid that the number and ability of his family to support him is as follows to wit, his wife Mary aged sixty two years who from the infirmities incident to a woman of her age is able to do but little work, and further that the waggon and harness mentioned in the schedule above he has paid for out of his pension money which became due on the fourth day of March last.
Sworn to & subscribed a Allen Gilliat in open court this 20 th day of September 1820 before me John Grant. Sur. First charge of 00.00
Orange County } p Clerks office }
I Joseph Davis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighty Three Dollars and Seventy Three Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 20 th day of September 1820 J. Davis Clerk

Amended Declaration
DISTRICT OF
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On this seventh day of April 181 8 , before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said district, personally appeared Allen Gilbert aged Sixty two years, resident in Richland in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Allen Gilbert enlisted for the term of Primary War on the  day of April in the year 1778 in Wethersfield in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Porter Baldwin of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lotisha Sheldon in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the month of June  1783 , when he was discharged from service in Danbury state of Connecticut , that he was in the battles of Long Island & York
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. except the annexed Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
I, Smith Dunlap Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Allen Gilbert did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said court  Smith Dunlap  Judge of Common Pleas
Jas. Davis Atty.  Danbury Ct.

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True To the Secretary of War Washington City

Richland Oct 14 th 1819
Dear Sir
I wish you to be so good as to forward me my Certificate as soon as possible as I am in great want of money and having relinquished my former pension with the expectation of drawing this I subjects me to a good deal of inconvenience and embarrassment. It has been a long time since I informed you that I never had any Certificate from Government to entitle me to my pension to a dollar a month. I do earnestly request you to attend to it without delay. Please to direct your letter to Sandy Brook Post office County of Oswego
This from your humble Servt
John C. Calhoun      Allen Gilbert

44162
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File No. 44.162
Allen Gilbert
Sierra Nevada
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]